This was our rescheduled trip to Lincoln after we had to cut short our Easter trip due to mum being ill. We chose the dates to coincide with our wedding anniversary.
We set off early enough to reach the Daisy Made Ice Cream and Coffee shop in time for lunch. We know from previous visits that it is good and, on the plus side, it is located just outside Lincoln.
After lunch, a ten-minute journey and we were parked at the back of Cathedral View, the B&B we were staying in for the next few days. We made a quick phone call to let the proprietor know we had parked the car and were about to set off into town when a lady who was servicing the rooms noticed we had arrived. Although it was too early for us to check into our room we were given the keys in advance.
Admin sorted, we walked the short distance to Lincoln Cathedral. When we stepped inside, we were enveloped by the peace and quiet within. The atmosphere was calming and we spent some time exploring the various spaces within. I was reminded why I was drawn to Lincoln for the Easter service, which, unfortunately, despite best laid plans, I was unable to attend on my first trip to Lincoln this year. The Cathedral is currently hosting the ‘Table for the Nation’, a 13-metre-long table made from a 5000-year-old fossilised oak tree trunk.
We took advantage of Lincon Cathedral café where I enjoyed a refreshing Elderflower drink accompanied by a slice of Cherry Bakewell traybake. Suitably refreshed I spent time in the Cathedral shop where I purchased books on the cathedral, the oak table and the Forest Stations artworks that are displayed in the nave of the Cathedral.
Next, we spent a short time walking around the Cathedral quarter calling in at the Visitor Information Centre to purchase ‘Lincoln – A Walking Guide’ so that we could locate some historical places of interest that we hadn’t previously seen.
It was now time for us to check into our room, unpack and chill out before a pre-dinner drink in the Wig & Mitre which is located next to Brown’s Pie Shop where we dined. The food was every bit as good as I remembered it from our first visit of the year. The waitresses were lovely and we were able to have a banter and giggle with them.
We had a nightcap in the Wig & Mitre before retiring to Cathedral View and the cosy bed inviting us for a good night’s sleep.
You always seem so well organised on your trips, Cherie. That way, you must get so much out of them
I do like to plan my trips
These days I am not quite so organised. Things keep getting in the way, scuppering my plans. So my trips are a bit more chaotic than they used to be.
Good on you for buying books on the cathedral, the oak table and the artworks that are displayed in the Cathedral nave. Even if you take every note possible and capture dozens of photos, the books will stay in your memory much longer.
It is the photos and the books that help me with historical information
That looks like a magic table suspended in the air!
It isn’t suspended in mid air but it is magical
What a very good first day
All the best Jan
It was a good trip all round
Oh, how very posh and regal, Lord C and the Lady Cherie – I love it!
(I was trying to sound British in the first part of the sentence, but I think I failed miserably. The second part is clearly American
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HaHa
It is a lovely homely B&B and rather quaint. This particular room is large and spacious and perhaps a little posh